In Re Cole

LENROOT, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming a decision of the examiner, rejecting claims 4 to 7, inclusive, 9, 10, 12, and 16 to 19, inclusive, of appellant’s application. The ground of rejection was that all of the claims lacked patentability in view of certain interference proceedings, hereinafter referred to, and the cited prior art.

Claim 12 is illustrative of the claims in issue, and reads as follows: “12. An electrolytic condenser of the character in which a metallic shell which houses the condenser…